Samuel R. Delany's literary pillars

1.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,789 ratings
2.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,259,796 ratings
3.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,217 ratings
4.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,375 ratings
5.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,176 ratings
6.
Nightwood
Nightwood 3.60 avg rating — 14,251 ratings
7.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,916 ratings
8.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,209 ratings
9.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia 3.84 avg rating — 144,866 ratings
10.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,889 ratings
11.
Persuasion
Persuasion 4.15 avg rating — 752,798 ratings
12.
Emma
Emma 4.05 avg rating — 950,108 ratings
12.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,974 ratings
14.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating — 246,447 ratings
15.
Pnin
Pnin 3.88 avg rating — 28,101 ratings
16.
A High Wind in Jamaica
A High Wind in Jamaica 3.76 avg rating — 10,338 ratings
17.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,958 ratings
18.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park 3.86 avg rating — 371,687 ratings
19.
The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,037 ratings
20.
Villette
Villette 3.78 avg rating — 78,434 ratings
21.
The Female Man
The Female Man 3.47 avg rating — 8,757 ratings
22.
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason 4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings
23.
Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda 3.86 avg rating — 26,588 ratings
24.
The Day of the Locust
The Day of the Locust 3.70 avg rating — 23,730 ratings
25.
Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep 3.81 avg rating — 8,878 ratings
26.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 3.95 avg rating — 55,822 ratings
27.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 3.93 avg rating — 22,022 ratings
28.
The Man Who Loved Children
The Man Who Loved Children 3.57 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
29.
Ethics
Ethics 4.10 avg rating — 20,278 ratings
30.
William Shakespeare: Complete Plays
William Shakespeare: Complete Plays 4.50 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
31.
Juliette
Juliette 3.67 avg rating — 4,805 ratings
32.
Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
Inferno (A Poet's Novel) 3.89 avg rating — 2,656 ratings
33.
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art 4.11 avg rating — 672 ratings
34.
The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark 3.89 avg rating — 11,529 ratings
35.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,420 ratings
36.
The Years
The Years 3.76 avg rating — 6,366 ratings
37.
Flush
Flush 3.88 avg rating — 13,256 ratings
38.
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus 4.18 avg rating — 229 ratings
39.
Drown
Drown 4.01 avg rating — 36,958 ratings
40.
Miracle of the Rose
Miracle of the Rose 4.10 avg rating — 1,409 ratings
41.
Urne Burial
Urne Burial 4.11 avg rating — 506 ratings
42.
The Confidence-Man
The Confidence-Man 3.62 avg rating — 3,473 ratings
43.
Religio Medici
Religio Medici 3.83 avg rating — 370 ratings
44.
The 120 Days of Sodom
The 120 Days of Sodom 3.07 avg rating — 14,380 ratings
45.
Billy Budd, Sailor
Billy Budd, Sailor 3.19 avg rating — 19,174 ratings
45.
This Is How You Lose Her
This Is How You Lose Her 3.74 avg rating — 99,565 ratings
47.
In Hazard (New York Review Books Classics)
In Hazard (New York Review Books Classics) 3.51 avg rating — 459 ratings
48.
We Who Are About To...
We Who Are About To... 3.51 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
49.
A Lost Lady
A Lost Lady 3.72 avg rating — 7,898 ratings
50.
On Strike Against God
On Strike Against God 4.21 avg rating — 337 ratings
51.
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception 3.95 avg rating — 2,462 ratings
52.
My Mortal Enemy
My Mortal Enemy 3.61 avg rating — 3,396 ratings
53.
Da Vinci's Bicycle
Da Vinci's Bicycle 4.07 avg rating — 107 ratings
54.
The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing
The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing 4.43 avg rating — 69 ratings
54.
Not Under Forty
Not Under Forty 3.80 avg rating — 151 ratings
56.
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences 4.12 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
57.
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays 4.41 avg rating — 462 ratings
58.
The Road to Amber (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 6)
The Road to Amber (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 6) 4.49 avg rating — 204 ratings
59.
The Two of Them
The Two of Them 3.58 avg rating — 252 ratings
60.
Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts 3.57 avg rating — 6,855 ratings
61.
From Hell
From Hell 4.19 avg rating — 43,729 ratings
62.
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
The Diaries of Adam and Eve 3.85 avg rating — 18,629 ratings
63.
Theological-Political Treatise
Theological-Political Treatise 4.09 avg rating — 4,970 ratings
64.
The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal 3.93 avg rating — 5,092 ratings
65.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.27 avg rating — 6,083 ratings
65.
Funeral Rites
Funeral Rites 4.02 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
67.
The Hours
The Hours 3.96 avg rating — 146,854 ratings
68.
Summer in Baden-Baden
Summer in Baden-Baden 3.66 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
69.
I, etcetera
I, etcetera 3.72 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
70.
Writing and Madness: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis
Writing and Madness: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis 3.86 avg rating — 71 ratings
71.
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry 3.93 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
72.
Imaginary Portraits: with The Child in the House and Gaston de Latour
Imaginary Portraits: with The Child in the House and Gaston de Latour 3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings
73.
Marius the Epicurean
Marius the Epicurean 3.55 avg rating — 693 ratings
74.
Extra (Ordinary) People
Extra (Ordinary) People 3.73 avg rating — 250 ratings
75.
Tatlin!
Tatlin! 4.53 avg rating — 58 ratings
76.
The Jules Verne Steam Balloon
The Jules Verne Steam Balloon 4.18 avg rating — 67 ratings
77.
Twelve Stories
Twelve Stories 4.18 avg rating — 40 ratings
78.
A Table of Green Fields: Stories
A Table of Green Fields: Stories 4.18 avg rating — 57 ratings
79.
Eclogues: Eight stories
Eclogues: Eight stories 4.24 avg rating — 72 ratings
80.
The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art
The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art 4.26 avg rating — 114 ratings
81.
Every Force Evolves a Form
Every Force Evolves a Form 4.42 avg rating — 177 ratings
82.
A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport
A Balance of Quinces: The Paintings and Drawings of Guy Davenport 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
83.
A Balthus Notebook
A Balthus Notebook 4.12 avg rating — 58 ratings
84.
Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology 3.97 avg rating — 5,289 ratings
85.
Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,884 ratings
86.
Dissemination
Dissemination 4.09 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
87.
Glas
Glas 4.17 avg rating — 206 ratings
88.
Threshold (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 1)
Threshold (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 1) 4.45 avg rating — 267 ratings
89.
Power & Light (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 2)
Power & Light (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 2) 4.51 avg rating — 177 ratings
90.
This Mortal Mountain (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 3)
This Mortal Mountain (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 3) 4.47 avg rating — 160 ratings
91.
Last Exit to Babylon (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 4)
Last Exit to Babylon (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 4) 4.33 avg rating — 186 ratings
92.
Nine Black Doves (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 5)
Nine Black Doves (The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol 5) 4.58 avg rating — 90 ratings
93.
The Short Stories
The Short Stories 4.22 avg rating — 14,875 ratings
94.
A Cool Million
A Cool Million 3.65 avg rating — 894 ratings
95.
The Dream Life of Balso Snell
The Dream Life of Balso Snell 3.24 avg rating — 525 ratings
96.
The Alphabet
The Alphabet 4.50 avg rating — 60 ratings
97.
Selected Poems 1965-1990
Selected Poems 1965-1990 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 120 ratings
98.
Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002
Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002 3.79 avg rating — 66 ratings
99.
Squares and Courtyards: Poems
Squares and Courtyards: Poems 3.94 avg rating — 48 ratings
100.
Winter Numbers: Poems
Winter Numbers: Poems 3.99 avg rating — 119 ratings
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